[AusNOG] Amazon Direct Connect in Global Switch sucking

[Paul Wilkins]

Nothing to be done. They're oversubscribed and TCP does what it does.
You're not going to see better performance. They know they have packet loss
as their monitoring tells them. If you're not getting the performance you
pay for under your SLA, go somewhere else.

Paul Wilkins

On 18 September 2015 at 08:58, Geordie Guy <elomis at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> We've had direct connect for a while through AWS and Global Switch (we're
> a PIPE (so TPG)) customer and got it organised through them.
>
> Does anyone have one of these and similarly struggle to get any donk out
> of it?  We see 2-3% output drops and average bandwidth of 400Mbps on an
> alleged 1Gbps link.  We've moved it to another terminating device, replaced
> SFP, conducted shine tests both directions (-6dB roughly, hunky dory) and
> the thing just won't GO.
>
> Starting to get intensely frustrated.  Any replies appreciated.
>
> G
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